ENGLISH 102 PAPER - SYNTHESIS COMPARE AND CONTRAST ESSAY

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Sample introduction

Your thesis should make the more points of your paper clear.

If the paper will emphasize the more points/differences, the introduction should present the less point/ similarities; if the paper emphasizes the more points/similarities, the introduction presents the less point/differences.

Sample introduction for a paper emphasizes contrast/differences

When Walt Disney made Alice the star of an animated film, it was easy to recognize her as the same child wandered in Lewis Carroll’s literary Wonderland. In Disney version, Alice grows when she eats a little from one side of the mushroom, and shrinks when she eats from the other—just as she does in the book. In the movie, Alice meets the White Rabbit, who still insists she is late; the Cheshire cat, who still vanishes; and the Queen of Hearts, who still shouts, “Off with her head!” All Alice’s famous adventures have moved from the page to the screen, taken on sound, color, and motion—yet something is missing: the differences between Carroll’s Alice and Disney’s Alice make the movie unworthy of the book.

Sample introduction for a paper emphasizes comparison/similarities

When I was a child, I had difficulty understanding how two people as different as my parents had ever gotten married. My father was an atheist and socialist. My mother is a Catholic Republican. My father adopted anyone he met who had a problem: a widow or an orphan, a man without a job. My mother insists one should speak only to those to whom one has been formally introduced. My father ran away from home when he was eleven and lived in the streets and on the roofs of tenements in New York. My mother grew up in a seventeen-room house. Until she was twenty-one, she never had to do without servants: her parents kept a cook, a butler, upstairs and downstairs maids, and a gardener. My mother tells me that when she met my father, she thought he was a “brilliant hooligan,” and he thought she was a “brat.” They had nothing apparent in common, yet these two people married and lived happily together for twenty-eight years because they were essentially alike.